Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for the TBE virus to infect human cells. The discovery, published in the journal ...

An analysis of commercial raw cat foods has detected disease-causing microbes, including some that are resistant to ...

New Jersey's expected warmer-than-normal temperatures means pests such as ticks and mosquitoes aren't going away just because ...

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with ...

The new shots combine multiple timed-release doses into a single injection, potentially reducing the number of health care ...

Tobacco is an important economic crop in the world. However, the infection of tobacco by pathogenic microorganisms, including ...

University of Kansas researcher Folashade Agusto trained as an applied mathematician, though today she's an associate ...

Massachusetts has had only eight cases total from 2015 till now, with several zero-case years. But with concerns around ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich resources for discovering proteins and tools for biotechnology, but many ...